NSIDC-0397HDF4 Data Used to Assess Long-Term Access to Remote Sensing Data with Layout MapsDuerr, Ruth E., and Jonathan CriderHDF4 Data Used to Assess Long-Term Access to Remote Sensing Data with Layout Maps2010-02-12Boulder, Colorado USANSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Centerhttp://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0397.htmlhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/P1B2VYBCJ95OInvestigatorRuthDuerrrduerr@nsidc.org1 303 735-0136 xCooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, CU BoulderNational Snow and Ice Data Center449 University of Colorado at BoulderBoulderColorado80027USAInvestigatorJonathanCriderGeoscientific Informationenvironmental datageospatial datageotechnical dataHierarchical Data FormatNASANSIDCNSIDC DAACNSIDC > National Snow and Ice Data CenterAIRCRAFTSATELLITEScompleteEnglishNSIDC_DAACNSIDCNational Snow and Ice Data Centerhttp://nsidc.orgData Center ContactNSIDCUser Servicesnsidc@nsidc.org1 303 492-6199 1 303 492-2468 National Snow and Ice Data CenterCIRES, 449 UCBUniversity of ColoradoBoulderCO80309-0449USANASA NSIDC DAACNASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Centerhttp://nsidc.org/daac/index.htmlData Center ContactNSIDCUser Servicesnsidc@nsidc.org1 303 492-6199 x1 303 492-2468 xNational Snow and Ice Data CenterCIRES, 449 UCBUniversity of ColoradoBoulderCO80309-0449USAFTPHDFDuerr, Ruth E., Peter Cao, Jonathan Crider, Mike Folk, Christopher Lynnes, and Mu Qun Yang. 2009. Ensuring Long-Term Access to Remotely-Sensed Data with Layout Maps. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 47(1): 123-219.Notice to Data Users: The documentation for this data set was provided solely by the Principal Investigator(s) and was not further developed, thoroughly reviewed, or edited by NSIDC. Thus, support for this data set may be limited.
This data set consists of a sampling of each type of Hierarchical Data Format version 4 (HDF4) data that are archived at the eight National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) Earth Science Data Centers (ESDCs). The data were sampled for a collaborative study between The HDF Group, the Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES-DISC), and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in order to assess the complex internal byte layout of HDF files. Based on the results of this assessment, methods for producing a map of the layout of the HDF4 files held by NASA were prototyped using a markup-language-based HDF tool. The resulting maps allow a separate program to read the file without recourse to the HDF application programming interface (API) (Duerr et al. 2009). Data products selected for the study, and a table summarizing the results, are available via FTP.CEOS IDN DIF9.72010-02-122012-03-28Added publisher for EDB conversion.